2002 World Congress on Natural Resource Modelling - Call for papers

The 2002 World Congress on Natural Resource Modelling titled "Modelling
Natural and Biotic Resources in a Changing Planet" will be held in Lesvos,
Greece 23-26 June 2002 and has an open call for papers (until May 15).
Interested scientists (including graduate students) are kindly invited to
contribute to the scientific program by submitting an abstract. Please
visit the web page http://resourcemodelling.org/conferences/2002lesvos.htm
for directions on how to contribute and all registration information.

Please allow me to inform you about the aims and the audience of the
upcoming Congress.

The Resource Modeling Association (RMA) was founded in the early 1980s by a
group of applied mathematicians, applied population biologists, fisheries
scientists, and resource economists, primarily from the West coast of North
America to organize annual meetings in order to discuss the application of
models to resource management. Since then, the Association has extended its
meeting activities to be international in scope. The RMA has published the
international journal Natural Resource Modeling since 1986. The RMA also has
a standing committee on resource policy issues, whose responsibility it is
to maintain a membership expertise data base. This data base is available to
organizations trying to identify scientists whom they can consult on
resource management and policy issues. A newsletter is published three times
annually with information concerning member activities.

The annual world congresses have taken place in a different continent as
follows:

Jon Conrad, Department of Applied Economics and Management, Cornell
University, "Right Whales in the western North Atlantic: Population Dynamics
and the Mortality from Ship Strikes and Entanglement in Fishing Gear"

Roger Sedjo, Director of Forest Economics and Policy Program at Resources
for the Future, "Terrestrial Systems to Mitigate Climate Change"

Richard Lammers, Water Systems Analysis Group, University of New Hampshire,
"Freshwater Resources at Continental and Global Scales"

Terry Quinn, Fisheries Division, School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences,
University of Alaska, "Ruminations on the Development and Future of
Fisheries Population Dynamic Models"

* "The Ecology of Scale" (Wageningen, the Netherlands [2000]) with
keynote speakers:

This year we are organizing a conference under the theme "Modelling Natural
and Biotic Resources in a Changing Planet" with a clear emphasis on the
issue of global change both from the natural and the biotic aspect. Even
the selection of the congress venue (Museum of Natural History of the Sigri
Petrified Forest) is a standing witness of the planetary change through
geological times.